Coin purse



May 15, 1928.

1,669,897 W. R. BUXTON coin PURSE Filed Jun 24, 1924 Z'Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR L 23 J9 BY ATTORNEYS -May 15; 1928.

W. R. BUXTON COIN PURSE Filed June 24, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS two diverging cuts so that the right-hand half of the leather piece is bent into a shovel formation, whereas the left-hand half of the leather piece 10, with only one cut up to the point 14, is bent into a V-shaped formation. In this bending action the object is to provide sloping walls to slide the coins out of the V-shaped portion, and spread them on the surface of the shovel-shaped portion- This leather piece 10 is used as the bottom of a tray urse made according to this invention. 11 order to provide a suitable pocket for the coins and suitable flanged edges 21 for the tray part of the purse, I provide .a piece of flexible and ornamental thin leather 19 which may be shaped in the form shown in Fig. 6. The formation of Fig. 6 may be readily folded to the form of Fig. 1, in which position the edges are stitched according to the dotted lines 20 just inside the margin of said figure. With the flexible pocket, thus provided, I insert the stiif leather piece, previously described, and

preferably leave it unsecured to its cover.

The parts are thus assembled into a coin purse which is a tray purse with suflicient stiffness to function with all the desired convenience. When the middle portion is pressed by the fingers, the stiff leather piece immediately falls down into trouglrlike form and the coins are readily displayed in the tray.

In order to reenforce the flanged edges 21, or wings of the tray, :1 wire 22, of small size and preferably round cross section, is bent into substantiall U-shaped form, as shown in Fig. 5, and is applied beneath the wings 21. embordering their inner marginal edges. To hold this wire in place, flaps 23 are provided on the outer leather 19, which flaps are turned in under the wire and secured by adhesive to the wings 21. This wire terminates short of the transverse line, on which the two sections of the purse are folded to close the latter, and is spaced from this line sufficiently so as not to interfere with free bending of the purse sections.

As a desirable additional feature, the leather member 10 has side extensions 24 at that end which lies within the coin pocket. These extensions are hinged to member 10 by the thin leather facing 18, in the manner as that already described, to bend along the lines of cuts 25 and are folded inwardly over the member 10 until their outer side edges abut along the line 26 (Fig. 1). The

extensions thereby line the top wall of the C0111 pocket and bend upwardly when the floor bends downwardly. This feature, while an adjunct to the main invention, is of advantage because it insures a full wide opening for the mouth of the coin pocket and because it assists in causing the floor of the purse to bend downwardly in the desired manner. The extensions 24 are held together, and a finishededge provided for the mouth of the purse, by turning in a (lap 27, provided on the outer leather 19 (Fig. 6), and securing it by adhesive thereto.

The raising of the extensions .24, when pressure is applied to the sides of the purse as shown in Fig. 2, also tends to elevate the side wings 21, by reason of their connection with the outer leather top wall of the coin pocket. There are other means however, which function to elevate the wings of the purse, and the connection of the side wings with the outer leather top wall of the coin pocket is not alone relied on for this purpose. Such connections may even be omit ted and the elevation of the wings effected by the means to be described.

The U-shaped wire 2:2 contributes materially to the elevation of the wings of the purse. It tends to hold the inner edges of the wings always in substantially the same vertical plane, acting something like a cross brace to prevent these edges from moving inwardly toward one another, when pressurevis applied to the central part of the purse. Pressure applied at this location, indicated at 30 in Fig. 7, causes the outer edges of the wings to move inwardly toward one another, as indicated by the dimension 31. The inner edges of the wings are held by the legs of the Ushapcd wire substantially in the vertical planes indicated by the line 32. As a consequence, the inner edges in order to move, must rise and they assume positions such as shown in Fig. 7. The wings are free to turn on wire to farilitate the action described. The wire 22 is thus raised at a location near the mouth of the coin pocket and tends to transmit a raising action to the wings at more remote locations.

The inward movement of the stitl' leather piece 10 at its central portion also causes the forwardly disposed side edges thereof to ride up against the inner faces of the side wings, at locations near their junction with the end wing, and raise the side wings by a cam-like action, as indicated in Fig. 8. Thus the side wings are elevated at their outer ends as well as at their inner ends. The two legs of wire 22, being carried upwardly with the wings, carry the cross bar portion of wire 22 upwardly and cause the end wing to be elevated. The action described follows from the use of the stiff leather piece 10 which tends to bend only along predetermined lines. The side edges of piece 10 normally lie parallel with the side edges of the purse and in the V-shaped recess formed along the edges of the outer case of the purse. When the purse is pressed at its central portion, as described, the side edges of the purse are carried inwardly out of their normalstraight line and. although the piece 10 is also carried inwardly at its central porneisasev tion, its side edges tend to remain more nearly straight and, due to this tendency, the forward portions of the side edges are thrown upwardly out oi the V shaped recess and engage the side wings, as above described.

The leather piece 10 is preferably also provided with a central transverse cut 38, whereby it will readily bend along a definite hinge line when the two sections of the purse are folded together, as shown in Fig. 3. I have found that it is better to provide a definite hinge line for this purpose rather than to rely on the more or less irregular line of bond, which would result from the folding of the two sections, it the cut 33 were not provided. An irregular line of bend, at the location described, tends to, and sometimes does detract from the free bending of the leather piece 10 along the lines of the other cuts.

The object of cutting back the end of member 10 at its central portion, leaving merely ears 17 at its corners, is to avoid the restricting influence which this end would otherwise exert on the bending of the member along the lines of the cuts. This end, if wedged in between the upper and lower walls of the outer case at its stitched end; would be held against bending and would in turn tend to restrict the degree of bending at other intermediate portions of piece 10. By cutting the end of piece 10 back, it can bend downwardly at its end, although not necessarily to as great a degree as it bends near the mouth of the coin pocket (see Fig. 9) whereby the floor of this pocket slopes downwardly from its closed end toward its open end.

The inner ends of wings 2d are bevelled, shown at 34:, for a like reason. Also. that end of piece 10 adjacent the end wing 21 of the tray, terminates short of the end wing for the purpose just described. In the lattcr case, the corner ears have been omit-ted in order to leave the piece 10 free to raise the side wings in the manner shown in Fig. 8.

For holding the two sections of the purse in folded relation, as shown in Fig. 3, I pro vide a flap 35 on one end oil the outer case of the purse. This flap carries one section 36 of a snap fastener which is engageable with a mating section 37 on the other end of the outer case.

The invention is characterized by the provision of an inner member for the tray, arranged to bend in a predetermined manner and more easily and to a greater degree than it otherwise would. This inner member is associated with an outer casing capable of being made of the fine, soft, thin leathers, which have not, of themselves, sufiicient substance to function in the desired way. A better appearing tray purse, and one which functions in a materially improved way,

is provided by the use of the two materials, neither one of which alone has heretoiore proved commercially satisfactory. The

bending of the floor of the tray occurs in a ever, small and of light weight and its presence in the case is hardly noticeable.

The invention has been disclosed herein, in an embodiment atpresent preferred, for illust'ative purposes, but the scope of the in vention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregping description.

What I claim is:

1. A tray construction for a coin purse, comprising a floor with marginalwings connected thereto, said tloor consisting of outer and inner members, the inner member being weakened and biased to bend toward the outer member and along predetermined lines when pressure is applied to the sides thereof.

2. A tray construction for a coin purse,

comprising a floor with marginal wings connected thereto, said floor consisting of outer and inner members, the inner member consisting of a plurality of sections so hinged together that they are biased to swing toward the outer member when pressure is applied to the sides thereof.

3. In a coin purse, a tray member comprising an outer part with marginal wings and an inner part comprising a plurality of sections hinged together so as to bend toward the outer part along predetermined lines into trough-like shape, said outer part being engageable by the sections when bent to limit the degree of their bending.

a. In a coin purse, a casing forming a coin pocket and a tray, said tray being foldable from a position wherein it forms a closure :tor the open mouth of the purse to a position wherein it lies extended from. the mouth, and a lining member extending into the pocket and tray and engaged with the side walls of each, said member being weakened along predetermined lines so as to bend toward the casing in deep trough-like formation when pressure is applied to the sides of the casing.

5. In a coin purse, an outer casing forming a coin pocket and a tray, an inner member lining the tray and extending into said pocket, said member being cut through along predetermined lines into a plurality of sections, and a facing connecting the out sec tions of said member and applied to the outer face thereof, whereby said sections are hinged so as to bend toward the back piece in deep trouglrlike formation when the sides of said casing are pressed together.

(i. A coin purse, coniprising, an outer case of readily flexible material forming a coin pocket and connected tray and a relatively stfi' inner lining member for both faces of said pocket. said member being weakened along substantially longitudinal lines in both its 'liaces so that the latter bend in opposite directions when pressure is applied to the sides of pocket near the mouth thereof.

7. A coin purse, comprising, an outer case of relatively flexible material forming a coin pocket and a tray, and an inner member of relatively stiti material forming a floor for said pocket and tray, said member comprising a plurality of sections hinged together so as to fall downwardly toward the back of the outer case when the side walls of the latter are pressed together. the sections within saidpoeket beinghinged to bend along a central longitudinal line extending from one end of the member outside said pocket, and the sections within said tray being hinged to bend along two lines which intersect the first named line and di verge from the point of intersection toward the other end of said member.

8. A coin purse, comprising an outer case of relatively flexible material forming a coin pocket and a. tray, and an inner member of relatively stitf material forming a floor for said pocket and tray, said member com prising a plurality of sections hinged together so as to fall downwardly toward the back of the outer case when the side walls of the latter are pressed together, the ends of said member at their central portions being spaced from the adjacent ends of said outer case.

'9. In a coin purse, a casing affording a. coin pocket and a tray toldably connected therewith and adapted to be moved to lie in extended relation to and in continuation of the mouth of said pocket, wings embordering the sides and outer end of said tray and secured along their outer edges thereto but free therefrom and raised thereabove at their inner edges, whereby a tray with marginal raised walls is formed, and a member of: spring metal extending along the inner edges of all the wings and connected thereto.

10. In a tray purse wings embordcring the margins thereof, and a wire round cross section bent to conform to the contour of the inner edges of said wings and underlying said edges and connected therewith, so that, the wings can turn on said wire when re quired.

11. A coin purse, comprising. an outer ease of relatively flexible material forming a coin pocket and tray, and an inner member of relatively stilt material forming a floor for said pocket and tray, said member comprising a plurality of sections hinged together so as to fall downwardly toward the back of the outer case when the side walls of the latter are pressed together, said member having sections hingedly connected therewith and disposed within said pocket and arranged to bend upwardly as said floor bends downwardly.

12. A coin purse, comprising, an outer case of relatively flexible material forming a coin pocket and a. tray, an inner member of relatively stifi' material forming a floor for said pocket and tray, said member comprising a plurality of sections hinged together so as to fall downwardly toward the back of the outer case when the side walls of the latter are pressed together, and wings embordering the margins of said tray, and connected to the top wall of said pocket.

13. A coin purse, comprising an outer case. of relatively flexible material forming a coin pocket and a tray, an inner member of relatively stiff material forming a floor for said pocket and tray, said member comprising a plurality of sections hinged together so as to fall downwardly toward the back of the outer case when the side walls of the latter are pressed together, and wings embordering the margins of said tray, said inner member arranged to contact with and raise the wings as it falls downwardly toward the back of outer case.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

WARNER R. BUXTON. 

